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  • M.L.S. v. T.H.-S

    Publication Date: 2018-09-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Olson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1081

    Trial court properly found that stepfather had standing to pursue a custody action regarding mother's child because he presented over-whelming evidence that he served in the place of child's deceased biological father and mother accepted the benefits of his child rearing efforts. Affirmed.

  • Feezle v. Feezle

    Publication Date: 2018-09-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1039

    The court affirmed the master's schedule of distribution of the parties' property in this divorce proceeding, except as to one pension asset. Wife was not in contempt for failing to pay husband's attorney fees where she had the inability to pay.

  • In re: T.S.

    Publication Date: 2018-09-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Saylor
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1075

    Guardian ad litem could serve as child's legal counsel in termination proceeding where no conflict of best and legal interests. Order of the superior court affirmed.

  • In the Interest of: M.W., a minor

    Publication Date: 2018-09-11
    Practice Area: Criminal Law | Evidence | Family Law
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1076

    Motion to suppress evidence seized from vehicle glove compartment denied where police were statutorily authorized to seize vehicle and conduct inventory search for ownership documents after discovering mismatched license plate and VINs. Dispositional order affirmed.

  • T.D. v. E.D.

    Publication Date: 2018-09-11
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stevens
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1084

    Trial court properly denied father's motions to suppress mother's brief and to modify custody to allow eight-year-old child to fly as an un-accompanied minor because trial court did not err by not interviewing child and did not abuse its discretion in considering "real world scenarios" or "common sense" in considering that planes could malfunction or be delayed and that airline personnel had duties other than checking on unaccompanied minors. Affirmed.

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  • In re: KCG

    Publication Date: 2018-09-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming
    Judge: Judge Reynolds McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0995

    Mother and her husband established, by clear and convincing evidence, that father had a settled purpose of relinquishing his parental claim to his daughter and refused or failed to perform his parental duties for a period greater than six months, warranting involuntary termination of his parental rights. The court granted mother's petition seeking to terminate father's parental rights.

  • SBB v. JEB-S

    Publication Date: 2018-09-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming
    Judge: Judge McCoy
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0997

    The court denied father's motion to modify a custody order to allow the child to change school districts, because the court found the child was performing satisfactorily in her current district and she had already had an individualized educational plan in place there.

  • In re: ARH

    Publication Date: 2018-09-04
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming
    Judge: Judge Anderson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0993

    Mother and her paramour satisfied their burden of establishing, by clear and convincing evidence, that father had a settled purpose of relinquishing parental claim to his daughter and refused or failed to perform parental duties for a period greater than six months. The court granted mother's petition to terminate father's parental rights.

  • Moyer v. Lesher

    Publication Date: 2018-08-28
    Practice Area: Civil Procedure | Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Carbon County
    Judge: Judge Serfass
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-1006

    Defendant was found in contempt for failing to comply with the court's prior orders requiring that she submit to certain evaluations. Because defendant's statement on appeal was vague, the court concluded she waived any issues for appeal.

  • Thomas v. Thomas

    Publication Date: 2018-08-21
    Practice Area: Family Law
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Gantman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 18-0987

    Trial court properly found husband in civil contempt of its order requiring him to make payments to wife under the parties' equitable dis-tribution agreements and properly imposed sanctions in the form of counsel fees in favor of wife because wife showed husband had notice of the order, he had the ability to pay and he chose not to do so and husband's arguments about wife's allegedly false testimony at an earlier hearing were not before the court since he had squandered his opportunity for appellate review of those claims by failing t